How He Loves!
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008I am emotional today.
Yesterday my son-in-law Ben and his bride, my daughter Bethany, introduced me to a song written by John Mark McMillan and led by Kim Walker called “How He Loves”.
I was blown away starting at the very first lines:
“He is jealous for me
He is a hurricane I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy…”
I highly recommend you acquiring this song, recorded live on the “We Cry Out” CD from Bill Johnson’s church in Redding, CA. Just go on Itunes and enter “How He Loves” and “Kim Walker” as the artist.
The freshness of the lyric, the obvious passion in Kim Walker and the well-done, heartfelt musical arrangement is a wonderful vehicle for the incredible love of God.
I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised, with all this time of walking with the Lord, but I am amazed and delighted and overwhelmed afresh with the sense of His fiery love. “God loves us” can’t remain merely a soothing, sappy cliche’ when we really get a glimpse of His passionate heart for us…
God’s love sets us free from, again in the words of the song, the need to “maintain our regrets
when we think about the way… He loves us, Oh How He loves us”!
I am emotional for another reason:
Our daughter Charity is moving to L.A. on Thursday, May, 1st to pursue her dreams of being involved in the entertainment field. We are so for her and I believe she will do well and wonderfully there and… I am going to miss her so!
Even though Charity has been living on her own here in town for months and lived in Greece for a season before that, this good-bye feels more permanent, like her real passage into adulthood.
This is life, this is how it’s supposed to be, Charity has roots and wings and she is flying through this window of opportunity that God has opened up for her. Knowing all that gives me a sense of peace, but it doesn’t stop me from missing her, and having some “good grief” in this Passage.
So, thanks for reading this and praying for us and remembering again, for yourself, How He Loves You!
Godrest and Godspeed,
David Baroni